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Displaced Palestinians Not Allowed to Return Home
The Israeli military has told [Israel's] Supreme Court that residents displaced from the Jenin, Tulkarm and Nur Shams refugee camps will not be permitted to return at this stage, according to a report by the Israeli newspaper Haaretz.
The newspaper said the army intends to maintain a military presence in the northern West Bank camps in order to preserve what it describes as operational and security control, and has not provided a timetable for residents to return.
Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been displaced from the three camps since the start of large-scale Israeli military operations in the northern West Bank. Palestinian residents and aid organisations have described the evacuations as abrupt and highly disruptive, leaving many families dependent on limited humanitarian assistance.
According to Haaretz, Israeli forces have also carried out extensive demolition and engineering works inside the camps, including widening roads and creating new routes intended to facilitate the movement of military vehicles.
The Israeli military has said such changes are necessary to improve access for security operations and prevent armed groups from rebuilding infrastructure inside densely populated camp areas.
Palestinian officials and rights organisations argue that the destruction and prolonged displacement are fundamentally altering the camps and could prevent residents from returning to their homes.
Human Rights Watch has previously accused Israel of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in connection with forced displacement and destruction in the northern West Bank. Israel rejects such characterisations and maintains that its operations are directed against Palestinian armed groups and are necessary for security reasons.
[Middle East Monitor on August 27]
[شبكة قدس الإخبارية, independent Palestinian news center on August 26]
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History of Palestine
Hanan Ashrawi (*1946), who quoted the above X-post, is a Palestinian politician, activist and scholar. Ashrawi started her career as a scientist at Birzeit University in 1990. She became a member of the PLO's Leadership Committee, serving as the official spokesperson of the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991. In 1996, she was appointed Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Palestinian Authority under Yassir Arafat. She became an elected member of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from where she resigned in 2020.
Count Folke Bernadotte (1895 - 1948) was a Swedish diplomat and nobleman who served as the Vice-President of the Swedish Red Cross during World War II. He became the face of international humanitarianism in the final, desperate months of the conflict, negotiating directly with Heinrich Himmler for the release of prisoners from Nazi concentration camps. His work was a solitary race against time to save the last remnants of the Holocaust.
In the chaos of early 1945, Bernadotte successfully negotiated with the collapsing Nazi regime for the release of prisoners. This mission, known as the White Buses operation, rescued approximately 15,000 people, including thousands of Jewish men and women who were among the last survivors of camps like Ravensbrück and Neuengamme.
According to sources quoted, the absolute numbers might differ as for the total of people rescued or the amount of Jews among them. Nevertheless, the whole operation ended as an extraordinary success.
Editor's Note:
And there should have been even more. I remember a TV documentation I watched in my youth and which was about some other Swedish diplomat, not Count Bernadotte, at the embassy in Berlin who should have tried to save refugees from Nazi persecution with 'illegally provided' German passports in 1945, only weeks before the end of the 'Reich'. While the heavily bombed Swedish embassy had already been transferred to Hamburg, there was still an 'emergency bureau', left in a bunker on the abandoned embassy compound. That diplomat later allegedly tried to contact a commander of the Soviet 'Red Army' whose troops were just approaching Berlin. After his attempt to cross the military front at a rather quiet place, he should have disappeared without a trace. - I am sure that this wasn't just 'great cinema' about some mysteries of World War II but a pictorial record of what had really happened. Yet, I haven't heard the same story, still present in my memory, again at any time later.
Maybe Hanan Ashrawi, born into a Palestinian family in 1946, might have heard from her parents about the Jewish refugees that came to Palestine during the war. Those were probably much different from other Jews, followers of a Zionist doctrine, who simultaneously or later invaded Palestine, pressing for the foundation of Israel as a 'State of the Jews' in 1948.
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